💖✨A Caring Christmas 🌟🎄

One Coal, Twice the Effect part 1

"Someone tell me- what is the purpose of Christmas?" Bluster peered around, eyeing the members of his most 'in' bad crowd. He was standing at the head of a long table, with his hands on it. "It's the PRESENTS of course!" He motioned his hands outwards. "So how do we ruin the care bears Christmas? We take away the presents- or even better- replace them with coal!!"
Everyone nodded in agreement, murmuring together in their absolute support and loyalty of Bluster- except for one fellow.
"Replace all the presents with coal? That's it?"
The entire table gasped, and Bluster glared around the room, until he spotted one guy, leaning back against his chair looking unimpressed.
"Oh, I didn't mean disrespect- I just mean, you aren't stopping THERE are you? You're Bluster, you're brilliant! So you know, when you came out with this plan that's sort of.. Meh, I thought you were gonna turn around and tell us the REAL plan.."
Bluster blinked, a little confounded. He cleared his throat. "Of course I have a better plan! Who do you think I am?" He then glared at everyone else. "I was just seeing who in my close crowd has low standards of me..."
"Oh of course! Clever, clever.." Skorn said. "So what is it then?"
"What's what?"
"Your real plan?"
Bluster looked to the side. "Uh..."
"Is it to.. Maybe, instead of replacing all their presents with coal," Skorn began, "-you're gonna target one bear- and replace only their presents with coal. That way they'll feel singled out- they'll feel like they aren't good enough. And if you target the right bear... you'll be reaping bad vibes from them all." Skorn simpered. "Wow, Bluster, you are brilliant."
"Precisely! That's exactly my plan! Bad minds think alike!" Bluster nodded approvingly at Skorn. "You must be learning a thing or two, hanging around me." He turned to face the window, inspecting hid nails. He sighed. "I am brilliant, aren't I?"
Skorn deviously smirked. "Oh yeah." He nodded.
"I'm lucky to have a leader like you."

***
Dibble scrambled onto Grumpy's bed, her little legs wriggling. She giggled as she crawled over to his snoozing face.
"Gwumpy," She whispered, before giggling again at his irritated snores. She unsteadily stood up, then started jumping.
"Wake up Gumpy!! Santa came!! He caaaaame!!" She declared, laughing her squeaky little laughs and trilling excitably.
"AH-" Grumpy sat up, startled. His face was scrunched up and he rubbed his cheeks. Dibble tumbled onto his lap, only giggling more.

"Wake up!! Lets gooo!" She said, grinning up at him.

"Augh..." He grumbled to himself and he rubbed his eyes. "Just gimme a minute, Dibs... Hey, why don't you go check everything out with Funshine and Good Luck? I'll come out soon.."
Grumpy then yawned, pulling the blanket over himself again.

Dibble whined a little, but soon forgot she was upset when she rejoined the others in the front room of the Cloudseeker.

Cheer, Good Luck and Funshine were beginning to check out their stockings. Share had just walked in with Dibble, yawning.

"How'd you sleep?" Cheer asked her, stopping and going over to see her friend.
"Really well!" Share nodded, smiling. Dibble bounced over to her stocking, and jumped inside it with a "wheee!"

Grumpy then trudged into the room. "Merry Christmas.!" he managed, still half asleep.
"Merry Christmas!" Came a chorus of replies.
"And a happy new year!" Good Luck finished joyfully. He pulled out something from his stocking- green sunglasses with each eye resembling a shamrock. "Whoah- awesome!! Funshine, please tell me you have matching sunglasses,"

Funshine had snuck a gingerbread bear cookie from the fridge, and was trying to munch it all down before Grumpy noticed.
"Mmh- memmie cffecffk!" He managed with his stuffed cheeks, before taking down his stocking and grinning.
Cheer and Share sat together in the corner, giggling and admiring their little stocking trinkets from Santa.
"Mmm chocolate!" Share said, holding some small heart-shaped objects to her chest happily. Cheer gasped with joy at a small figurine resembling one of her favorite gaming characters.